Both London I (above) and London II data centres are now served by Hudson Energy, an independent provider of electricity and gas

CyrusOne has announced that its London I and London II data centres are now running on a 100 per cent renewable energy tariff.

Comprising a combined 23MW of IT power, the London I data centre in Slough and London II facility in Prologis Park, Stockley, are now served by Hudson Energy, an independent provider of electricity and gas to businesses across the UK.

The reluctance of firms to dispose of old tech is costing an average of more than $100,000 per year.

A survey of 600 data centre experts spanning Europe, North America and Asia Pacific found two-in-five global firms waste over $100,000 per year hoarding outmoded IT equipment, because of security and compliance risks.

The results of The High Cost of Cluttered Data Centres, conducted by Blancco Technology Group in conjunction with Coleman Parks, further found that 74 per cent of UK companies said at least 26 per cent of all RMA drives located on their premises were still on there because they were unwilling to send them back to the relevant manufacturers. Furthermore, a quarter of those surveyed admitted that over half of their RMA drives are gathering dust for the same reason.

Volta claims to offer “industry-leading” power resilience in central London with a site that benefits from a total incoming feed capacity of 9.6 MVA.

NetActuate has launched services from a new data centre location in London to offer increased capacity for infrastructure and boost global network performance and reliability. The firm claims the new location improves its ability to provide “high performance, flexible and reliable services”.

HLRS’ current supercomputer “Hazel Hen” is based on a Cray XC40 system and offers peak performance of 7.42 petaflops.

The High-Performance Computing Centre of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on building and delivering a next generation supercomputer that will be 3.5 times faster than the centre’s current system.

HLRS has named the forthcoming system Hawk. Based on the November 2018 list at www.top500.org, it’s claimed this will be the world’s fastest supercomputer for industrial production, powering computational engineering and research across science and industrial fields to advance applications in energy, climate, mobility and health.